Articles by Smashing Magazine from March 2022

In this series of articles, we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces. You can also find more examples in [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design...

After two years where almost everything moved online, 2022 marks the return of in-person conferences. In fact, [SmashingConf is back](https://smashingconf.com/conferences): coming to San Francisco an...

Are you a designer or developer affected by the war in Ukraine? Here are some options to consider if youre looking for a design or tech job....

In this article, well talk about how to adapt our sites to the different scenarios of a device pointer: whether it has a pointer or not, or how accurate it is. To adapt our site to those devices needs...

In the past months, there have been lots of talks dedictaed to Remix. Routing is not only one of the things that sets it apart from other frameworks, but it also fuels great performance and improves t...

In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your project...

In this shorter series of articles, we highlight design patterns, techniques, and strategies to design better digital interfaces. You can also learn much more in [Smart Interface Design Patterns](http...

CSS Custom Properties can be used for far more than just color, and their values update in realtime, both via display mode updates and JavaScript logic. This is powerful stuff. Eric explains how moder...

Building on a previous article on How to Build a Drag-and-Drop File Uploader, well be adding some new features, but more importantly (maybe), well be learning how to build it in Vue 3 and learn some b...

This fresh new design trend has been picking up steam with the rising popularity of colorful inflated 3D graphics in web illustrations and with the latest Virtual Reality projects like Horizon Worlds....

Looking for ways to create a smooth CI/CD flow for your software? In this article, Tom Hastjarjanto shares some useful concepts that can be combined with GitHub Actions and NPM packages. With this set...

Standing out among the millions of mobile apps can be challenging, but proper marketing can give you that crucial edge. This piece shares how to start your mobile app marketing strategy and improve it...

In this article, Vivek Maskara introduces Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is increasingly becoming a popular tool for managing AWS-based infrastructure. Well take a closer ...

What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isnt going to dwell on the React side of things too much. T...

Using signals to deliver less, or different, content is a form of progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation depending on how you look at it), whereby extraneous content is only loaded when nece...

Using signals to deliver less, or different, content is a form of progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation depending on how you look at it), whereby extraneous content is only loaded when nece...

As a design community, we all cant be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight against the war, for democracy, for those dreams that children are entitled to have when they are growing...

If users cannot find the answers to their questions or are not exposed to critical messaging, they will not act, and your website will fail. To prevent that from happening, you need an effective infor...

Dual-screen devices are just the next evolution in responsive design. If you have a PWA or website, the APIs available make integrating into your existing code base seamless. This article explains why...

What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isnt going to dwell on the React side of things too much. T...

2022 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for CSS, with a plethora of new features on the horizon. Some are already starting to land in browsers, others are likely to gain widespread browser suppor...

As a design community, we all cant be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight against the war, for democracy, for those dreams that children are entitled to have when they are growing...

As a design community, we all cant be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight against the war, for democracy, for those dreams that children are entitled to have when they are growing...

Following our monthly tradition, artists and designers from across the globe challenged their creative skills and designed desktop wallpapers to welcome March. They come in versions with and without a...

Maintaining a design system is a lot of work. In this article, Atila Fassina shares his lessons learned and how a platform such as Backlight can help put together a series of tools to speed up your ar...